Real-time production control of an FMS in a produce-to-order environment

Abstract This paper deals with real-time control of an FMS, operating in a produce-to-order environment, with machines subject to failure. A two-level production control system (PCS) is developed and examined. The proposed PCS incorporates three principles: no need for pre-planning procedures; separation between due-date and operational considerations; and full exploitation of process flexibility. In an extensive series of simulation experiments it was demonstrated that the proposed PCS leads to good results in both criteria: maximum throughput and minimum tardiness of orders. A comparison study between this PCS and one which is not based on separation between due-date and operational considerations, indicated the advantage of the former.

[1]  Kathryn E. Stecke,et al.  Formulation and Solution of Nonlinear Integer Production Planning Problems for Flexible Manufacturing Systems , 1983 .

[2]  Min-Hong Han,et al.  Flow control in flexible manufacturing: minimization of stockout cost , 1989 .

[3]  Uttarayan Bagchi,et al.  Experimental investigation of real-time scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems , 1985 .

[4]  Ram Rachamadugu,et al.  Due date based scheduling in a general flexible manufacturing system , 1989 .

[5]  Jim Hutchison,et al.  Scheduling approaches for random job shop flexible manufacturing systems , 1991 .

[6]  David R. Denzler,et al.  Experimental investigation of flexible manufacturing system scheduling decision rules , 1987 .

[7]  David D. Yao,et al.  Flexible Parts Routing in Manufacturing Systems , 1990 .

[8]  Ludo Gelders,et al.  Allocating work between an FMS and a conventional jobshop: A case study , 1988 .

[9]  Michael J. Shaw.  A pattern-directed approach to FMS scheduling , 1988 .

[10]  Moshe M. Barash,et al.  Operational control of item flow in versatile manufacturing systems , 1979 .

[11]  L. N. Van Wassenhove,et al.  Analysis of Scheduling Rules for an FMS , 1990 .

[12]  Oded Maimon,et al.  Dynamic Scheduling and Routing for Flexible Manufacturing Systems that Have Unreliable Machines , 1988, Oper. Res..

[13]  Kripa Shanker,et al.  A loading and dispatching problem in a random flexible manufacturing system , 1985 .

[14]  Richard Hildebrant.  Scheduling flexible machining systems using mean value analysis , 1980, 1980 19th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control including the Symposium on Adaptive Processes.

[15]  Kathryn E. Stecke,et al.  Loading and control policies for a flexible manufacturing system , 1981 .

[16]  Joong-In Kim,et al.  Multi-criteria operational control rules in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) , 1990 .

[17]  W. M. Nawijn,et al.  Quasi on-line scheduling Procedures for Flexible Manufacturing Systems , 1988 .

[18]  Albert Jones,et al.  A real-time production scheduler for a stochastic manufacturing environment , 1988 .

[19]  Stanley B. Gershwin,et al.  An algorithm for the computer control of a flexible manufacturing system , 1983 .

[20]  Marco Garetti,et al.  On-line loading and dispatching in flexible manufacturing systems , 1990 .